Late Breaking Lab News
December 31, 2012 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
It is likely that the latest lab acquisition by Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. (BRLI) is for the purpos…
December 20, 2012 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Consolidation of in vitro diagnostics (IVD) manufacturers continues to help industry leaders become ever bigger. When Hologic, Inc., of Bedford, Massachusetts, reported its third quarter earnings last month, it reported that diagnostics is now the largest business segment at…
November 19, 2012 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Only one clinical lab industry vendor made the inaugural list of the Modern Healthcare’s fastest- growing health companies. It was Sysmex America, of Mundelein, Illinois. Sysmex ranked number 26 on a list of 40 healthcare companies. Modern Healthcare reported that…
October 29, 2012 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
OURLab and its parent company, Prost Data, Inc., of Nashville, Tennessee, entered into an agreement to be sold to Opko Health Inc., of Miami, Florida. The purchase price of $40 million will be paid as $9.4 million in cash and $30.6 million in stock. …
October 8, 2012 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Definiens AG, one of the major players in the fast-growing market for digital pathology, raised $12.8 million in additional capital funding. The company, based in Munich, Germany, manufacturers systems for digital image analysis. Definiens stated that the new funds will be used for â…
September 17, 2012 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Exome sequencing testing for cancer patients is now offered by the Cancer Genetics Laboratory at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in Houston, Texas. This clinical testing will be performed using next-generation gene sequencing technology. Pathologists at Baylor are among the first in…
August 27, 2012 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
How big is the market for laboratory testing in China, with its 20,000 hospitals and population of 1.3 billion people? A new report estimates that the independent clinical laboratory industry in China currently generates about 2 billion Yuan Renminbi per year in revenue. This is equal to about US $31…
July 16, 2012 “Intelligence : Late Breaking Lab News”
It is with sadness that we report the death of pathologist Joel A. Sonnier, M.D. A victim of murder, his body was discovered in his home in Lubbock, Texas, on July 10. The housekeeper and the gardener made the discovery and called the police. Lubbock police announced the murder, but have no suspects …
June 25, 2012 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Earlier this month, the clinical laboratory at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (OSUWMC) was sent a letter by federal CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act) officials declaring that the laboratory was in violation of proficiency testing (PT) regulation…
June 4, 2012 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
It’s a milestone on the path to personalized medicine and an example of how integrated health informatics will give clinicians real-time access to unlimited amounts of medical data. The 1000 Genomes Project announced in recent months that “the world’s largest set of data on hum…
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